God has given us many signs to show us how to know and follow our Creator. If we look up into the sky at night, we can see what astronomers tell...

Granddad was a quiet man. But in the evenings when he settled on the sofa, poetry flowed from him. I loved to lean against his chest, my cheek on his worn,...

Last week I watched what seemed to be a lizard party in my backyard. Lizards were everywhere — climbing on the fence, skittering from rock to rock, dodging behind flowers, perching...

When my parents died, my younger brother and I lived together. Our financial situation was difficult. He drove a bus, and I was a schoolteacher. Then I was diagnosed with a...

During my prayer time each day, I close my supplications to God with Jesus’ prayer: “Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” Were this powerful prayer to...

Every summer, the mango trees in my neighborhood produce an abundant harvest. Any fruit that falls over a tree-owner’s fence are free to the first taker. Hundreds of beautiful, sweet mangoes...

During a recent job interview, I was asked to draw an identity wheel — a pie chart depicting the importance I place on my social identities. After I completed the wheel,...

“Raise your hand when you can smell it,” I told my science students at the beginning of an activity to help them experience the concept of diffusion. I stood at the...

In today’s reading, God tells the prophet Isaiah to remove his clothes and his sandals and walk around naked for three years. It was a drastic and visual message to Israel...

Due to a decline in my health, I was forced to give up my career as a primary school teacher. The job had enabled me to support my husband and myself...